Editorial Procedures and Notes for Authors

Editorial policy

Provide a forum for exchange of information pertaining to sustainable use of natural
renewable resources in integrated farming systems in the tropics and sub-tropics.

Assist scientists in developing countries to prepare their research findings for
publication.

Disseminate relevant research results rapidly, and in easily assimilable format, by
making maximum use of electronic communication media

To this end the journal publishes both full-length papers and short communications
(posters) describing the results of research that relate to the theme of sustainable rural
development. Guidelines for the preparation of papers and posters are given in
the section on Notes for Authors.

Submitting papers and posters to LRRD

Papers and posters should be sent by E-mail or on diskette to the Senior
Editor
regpreston@utafoundation.org. If acknowledgement is not
received within two weeks (in the case of E-mail) then authors should send a reminder to
the Senior Editor with details of the file names and dates sent. The papers can be written
with the aid of any of the principal word processing software programs and if sent as
e-mail should be as attachments or "compressed and UUENCODED" files.
Further details are given in "notes for authors".

Editing papers for LRRD

The procedure is as follows

Papers are received and coded (date of receipt and provisional URL) by the
Senior Editor and then sent immediately to two reviewers who
comment, within one and at most 2 weeks, on the suitability
of the paper for publication in LRRD, and any suggested changes.

Reviewers' comments are received by the editors who communicate with authors regarding
any proposed changes.

Authors return the revised (when revisions are requested) papers to the
editors who do the final editing in "html" format.

The edited versions of the papers are posted on the UTA Web Page so that authors can revise the formatted papers
(a restricted URL is sent to the author for this purpose)

Responsibility for posting the papers on the Home Page of LRRD is with CIPAV (Hector Osorio)

Notes for Authors

The principle tools for publishing the journal are now: Corel Office 2000
(Word Perfect), Lotus 123, Microsoft Office XP or 2000 (MS Word and Excel) and
Star Office 5.2. These are the preferred formats
for receiving papers and posters..

Authors should examine carefully recent papers and posters in the journal and follow
the style currently in use. Where possible, please always supply the original spreadsheets
and data which were used to produce graphics in the papers, since this allows us to
produce a uniform look and maintain the quality of the finished journal. Likewise, if you
have tabulated data in your paper, please format it using a table, and not tabs and spaces
since tables are very well supported in HTML format. When using the tabular
format please allot a new cell to each piece of data. Tables that
have more than one line in a cell may appear normal in "MS Word"
or "Word Perfect" but they become distorted when converted to
HTML.

References should be set up with minimum punctuation but maximum detail of the actual
citation. Abbreviations of journal titles should not be used. In the list of
references, citations to "Livestock Research for Rural Development" should
include the appropriate "URL" for the article. For example:

PLEASE use the Spell-Check and ensure that references in the text are
in the reference list and vice versa. An easy way to check this latter point is to print
the reference list and then from the beginning of the text to use the "FIND"
command and type "19" and then "20". This will locate all the references
assuming you have cited correctly the source including the date.